The Edge Of Love (15)

HERE’S a film which proves that not everything media darling Keira Knightley touches turns to box office gold.

HERE’S a film which proves that not everything media darling Keira Knightley touches turns to box office gold.

And with good reason. A wartime drama about Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), it fails to captivate despite Knightley’s character Vera Phillips lusting after Thomas who’s married to Caitlin MacNamara (Sienna Miller).

Even having the two girls sharing a bath and putting soldier William Killick (Cillian Murphy) in the emotional crossfire doesn’t ignite the picture until it’s too late.

Directed by John Maybury and written by Keira’s mother, Sharman MacDonald, the extraordinary number of fume-filled scenes will leave many viewers in need of a good cough.